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Michelle Pfeiffer has been cast as the lead in Peter Craig's directorial debut Wild Four O'Clocks. Craig most recently wrote The Batman for Warner Bros. and worked on Paramount's upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, which is screening at the 75thCannes Film Festival this month. The title, which is produced by La La Land's Marc…

Viola Davis has hit back at criticism of her portrayal of Michelle Obama in Showtime’s The First Lady by decrying critics as “absolutely serving no purpose.” In a hard-hitting interview with the BBC’s Today program, the Oscar-winner described the criticism of the way in which she portrays the former POTUS’ wife as…

The executive producers of the upcoming Showtime anthology series The First Lady are already thinking about what historical women to focus on in Season 2. Its debut season, centering Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), premieres on April 17. Cathy Schu…

Viola Davis stars in Showtime’s The First Lady in the role of Michelle Obama, and she admits she’s nervous about what the former First Lady will think of her performance. The anthology drama is set to premiere on April 17. “Let me tell you something, not only does the thought [of Michelle Obama watching the show] come…

A look at the White House experiences of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt is what Showtime’s anthology drama First Lady is all about. Its official trailer has been released in advance of the series’ April debut. The new anthology drama stars Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bo…

The quirky comedy French Exit, about several disconnected, somewhat lonely American souls who come together in unique ways in Paris, is funny, sad, bittersweet, surreal and altogether different. For star Michelle Pfeiffer, who has won some of the best reviews of her career after the New York Film Festival premiere, it…

Oscar and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) will portray Betty Ford in The First Lady (working title, fka First Ladies), Showtime’s anthology, executive produced by Viola Davis who stars as Michelle Obama. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the…

Michelle Pfeiffer has played an array of iconic characters—from a heartbroken Madame de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons to the beehived, conniving antics of Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray—but none of her previous work forewarned us of the wonderfully aloof eccentricity she displays as newly-impoverished socialite widow…

The New York Film Festival wrapped tonight, and its closing-night film, French Exit, is a winner that firmly places Michelle Pfeiffer, a three-time past nominee, back in the heart of the Best Actress Oscar race. She tops an aces cast that is sublime in every way in an absurdist comedy that is surreal, dark, witty…

French Exit, which stars Michelle Pfieffer and Lucas Hedges and has Tracy Letts voicing a cat named Small Frank, will have its world premiere as the closing night entry in this fall’s New York Film Festival. Film at Lincoln Center hasn’t set final details for the 58th annual edition of the festival, which runs…

Angelina Jolie and her cheekbones steal the day in Disney’s inevitable sequel to its 2014 monster hit, Maleficent. This one basically picks up where the first one left off. You might recall that Maleficent (Jolie), the evil, winged sorceress who acts as faerie godmother to Aurora (Elle Fanning), aka Sleeping Beauty…

Oscar nominees Annette Bening and Michelle Pfeiffer are boarding director Gideon Raff's thriller Turn of Mind, a feature adaptation of the Alice LaPlante New York Times bestseller. Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright is adapting the psychological thriller, which centers on a retired orthopedic doctor (Bening) suffering…